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I was thinking about this in class today. With a potential nuclear conflict brewing with Iran, and this Avian Virus poised to make the jump to human-human transmission, it is worrying.

It begs the question, Are these the End times?

No man will know when the world will come to an end, not the angel not even the son himself will know. For only the father will know when the end of the world will come. The end of the world will come like a theif in the middle of the night.

from what i hear, the world is scheduled to end on december 21st, 2012. so, we're got some time to kill.

from what i hear, the world is scheduled to end on december 21st, 2012. so, we're got some time to kill.

Wrong.. It ends next tuesday! Where have you been? It's on the freaking news!!:headbang:

The world will end in 5 billion years, when it is incinerated by the expanding sun.

from what i hear, the world is scheduled to end on december 21st, 2012. so, we're got some time to kill.
And a whole lot of people to kill too :eek:

It begs the question, Are these the End times?
No, but we're getting close. Watch out for the giant radioactive space badgers to be descending upon our pitiful world by about 2020, and from that point on, the Earth pretty much goes down hill.

This will sound crazy, but I can't wait! I have grown very bitter about this planet and race of people. I am happy to just sit around live for me and wait for the time to come.

This will sound crazy, but I can't wait! I have grown very bitter about this planet and race of people. I am happy to just sit around live for me and wait for the time to come.
I sort of know how you feel :p Perhaps a bit nihilist of me though.

No, but we're getting close. Watch out for the giant radioactive space badgers to be descending upon our pitiful world by about 2020, and from that point on, the Earth pretty much goes down hill.

I thought we were looking for near-earth objects?

I thought we were looking for near-earth objects?
Ah, but the Badgers discovered a loop hole by becoming Jewish. That makes them co-owners in the Great Jew Conspiracy, and so they've convinced all the world leaders and most High School Astronomy Clubs to look away from their approaching army.

Badgers? I thought giant radioactive space Beavers were coming. I've been misinformed!

Badgers? I thought giant radioactive space Beavers were coming. I've been misinformed!
Everyone knows its giant space hamsters from Andromeda :rolleyes:

Badgers? I thought giant radioactive space Beavers were coming. I've been misinformed!
That happens if you rely on mainstream sources for your news.

Well if you call General circa 2004 mainstream....

Well if you call General circa 2004 mainstream....
Indeed, we're all a bunch of corporatist whores for the Jew Conspiracy here, even DHomme sold out a few months ago.

The world will end in 5 billion years, when it is incinerated by the expanding sun.

Or....

That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.

Wish there was a Cthulhu smiley...

from what i hear, the world is scheduled to end on december 21st, 2012. so, we're got some time to kill.
that's my 31st birthday :(

oh, anyway, we are closer to the end of the world, tomorrow we will be closer, the first day of existence was the begining of the end.............

The purpose of life...is to end, Mr. Anderson.

Bah, if humanity could survive the 20th century, it can survive anything.

That's a rather fallacious statement. Change accelerates; paradigm shift is exponential. Change always engenders conflict. Therefore, it almost inevitable that change and conflict will only get continuously worse (or better, from my point of view) at an in fact accelerating rate as the century continues.

Well, we've got the War and the Pestilence and the Death, and if you eat as much steak as I like to, Mad Cow disease means Famine.

We can grow steak in labs now. *nods*

The world will end in 5 billion years, when it is incinerated by the expanding sun.

Technically, the sun will only expand to a circumference of about the orbit of Venus, which will not incenerate the Earth, merely burn off the entire atmosphere, much like Mercury. So, if we adapt to be able to survive in about 700 degree temperatures and no oxygen or other gasses to breathe, we'll be fine. Unless the sun knocks the Earth out of orbit when it expands to a red giant, which is a distinct possibility. Of course, that's just assuming the sun goes the predicted route of becoming a red giant. There is still the rarer possibilities of it going nova or collapsing into a white dwarf. Or (even less likely) going supernova, collapsing into a neurton star or brown dwarf...or if we're super un-lucky, going the black hole route.

Of course, unless we devise ways to save the Earth from a collision by any of the millions of large meteors and comets first, this is all moot. But otherwise, I agree with you.

Technically, the sun will only expand to a circumference of about the orbit of Venus, which will not incenerate the Earth, merely burn off the entire atmosphere, much like Mercury. So, if we adapt to be able to survive in about 700 degree temperatures and no oxygen or other gasses to breathe, we'll be fine. Unless the sun knocks the Earth out of orbit when it expands to a red giant, which is a distinct possibility. Of course, that's just assuming the sun goes the predicted route of becoming a red giant. There is still the rarer possibilities of it going nova or collapsing into a white dwarf. Or (even less likely) going supernova, collapsing into a neurton star or brown dwarf...or if we're super un-lucky, going the black hole route.

Of course, unless we devise ways to save the Earth from a collision by any of the millions of large meteors and comets first, this is all moot. But otherwise, I agree with you.
We could always have colonised other galaxies by then.

We could always have colonised other galaxies by then.

We don't even need to go to other galaxies, just another solar system. But wether we can or not, even if we build orbital planetary lasers to destroy incoming comets, this planet is severely fucked around/about the year 5,000,002,000. Give or take a few million years.

That's just great. Just after Hitler and Japan took over the world, the atom bomb burned off our atmosphere, communism took over, and SARS wiped off 24% of the world poulation as predicted, we have this. That's just great. At least Jesus will come down and party with me for a while.

I was thinking about this in class today. With a potential nuclear conflict brewing with Iran, and this Avian Virus poised to make the jump to human-human transmission, it is worrying.

It begs the question, Are these the End times?


its best not to bring that up...i've learned this from experience

*sigh*

No.

On the slim possibility that Iran actually uses a nuclear weapon in the future (keep in mind MAD...they may be wacky, but I doubt even they would be willing to commit suicide on such a scale.), there is an even slimmer chance that every single nation in the world with nuclear devices retaliates in turn. Iran does not have a global strike capacity. They couldn't start a world war, but they would be annihilated anyway. Even if they somehow do manage to strike a major world power (ie. through a terrorist attack), humanity will survive.


As for avian flu...

Are you forgetting how many people died from the bubonic plague and yet humanity survived and indeed maintained progress?

you ppl are all silly, the world will end this june. 6/6/6

you ppl are all silly, the world will end this june. 6/6/6
Seen 'The Omen' recently?

you ppl are all silly, the world will end this june. 6/6/6

The whole 666 as the sign of the devil has been proven to be in error. It is in fact, 6 to the power of 6, to the power of 6. And the number actually signifies the number of intersecting dimensions which can be accessed if you have the proper technology. The alien race who seeks to keep this information from mankind is responsible for the whole "number of the beast" misnomer.

The whole 666 as the sign of the devil has been proven to be in error. It is in fact, 6 to the power of 6, to the power of 6. And the number actually signifies the number of intersecting dimensions which can be accessed if you have the proper technology. The alien race who seeks to keep this information from mankind is responsible for the whole "number of the beast" misnomer.

That would explain the lack of prime-time television shows that portray discrete mathematicians as the hero...

The whole 666 as the sign of the devil has been proven to be in error. It is in fact, 6 to the power of 6, to the power of 6. And the number actually signifies the number of intersecting dimensions which can be accessed if you have the proper technology. The alien race who seeks to keep this information from mankind is responsible for the whole "number of the beast" misnomer. :eek:
You fool! These forum whores AREN'T READY YET!!!
NOOOOOOOOOO

The whole 666 as the sign of the devil has been proven to be in error. It is in fact, 6 to the power of 6, to the power of 6. And the number actually signifies the number of intersecting dimensions which can be accessed if you have the proper technology. The alien race who seeks to keep this information from mankind is responsible for the whole "number of the beast" misnomer.


I want that car (after the Oz modifications) and the device.


What nuclear war? The overhyped insinuation that Iran is producing a nuclear weapon now (I've seen a claim of it to be done in march on the internet).
It takes several years after the refinement process is started to get enough uranium/plutonium to make bombs. So even if they started now Iran would be able to produce a nuclear weapon in 5 years (±1 year), including test runs, add a few years if you want it as ordenance on any of their missiles.
And even then it would be only a regional threat due to the lack of IBCM capability.

Same goes for this particular strain avian flu (the H5N1 one). It's an overhyped threat. Yes it will kill tens of millions of people (seeing that it has a reported lethality rate of 50%+, that is of the about 150 cases reported in two years over 50% have died) if it would strike undetected but for the last two years or so both it's spread and ease of crossing the species boundary have been monitored. Currently it is still in the stage of people requiring prolonged/regular contact to catch it and although there are several reports of this flu jumping from one person to another it has not yet demonstrated the capability to infect people beyond this group of 2 persons.
The biggest drawback of this flu strain is that we can't use the normal method of vaccine making (injecting the flu strain into an egg), but they are currently testing a vaccine.

you ppl are all silly, the world will end this june. 6/6/6

The actual date is September 9, 2009. You do the math.

a freind had me set an alarm for the beginning of the apocalypse. i have it scheduled for the second of march at 12.06pm (adjust for your own time zone). so there, that's when it's all going down.

Wish there was a Cthulhu smiley...
Here ya go.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a377/jusenkyoguide/cthulhu_smiley.gifhttp://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a377/jusenkyoguide/cthulhu-ani.gif

The world will end in 5 billion years, when it is incinerated by the expanding sun.
This guy got it right. The sun will engulf the earth in it's "Red Giant" stage. However the human race would have been long gone for like 4 billion years anyway....give or take.

If it didn't happen when the Red & White Sox won the Series, it ain't happening....

No man will know when the world will come to an end, not the angel not even the son himself will know. For only the father will know when the end of the world will come. The end of the world will come like a theif in the middle of the night.

That's a cheerful outlook.

from what i hear, the world is scheduled to end on december 21st, 2012. so, we're got some time to kill.

...No, I can't say I will be doing anything important, apart from getting mashed.

So yeah, it's a date.

Hail to the end times, baby.

I'll be raising a glass, but it won't be me raising hell for a change.

a freind had me set an alarm for the beginning of the apocalypse. i have it scheduled for the second of march at 12.06pm (adjust for your own time zone). so there, that's when it's all going down.

I think I'll stay in bed in that case.

I was thinking about this in class today. With a potential nuclear conflict brewing with Iran, and this Avian Virus poised to make the jump to human-human transmission, it is worrying.

It begs the question, Are these the End times?

Do you really think we'd get off this easily?

I'm expecting boiling seas of blood and raining fleash-eating toads. Spontaneous Groin Combustion. :eek:

Nope. Not for a while it will be...

Right. There've been countless prophecies about the apocalypse (years 666, 1966, 1999, etc. etc.) and not one has even come close to taking place. Prophets like Nostradamus were completely clueless: if you read any of his predictions, you'll see that they're dateless, entirely ambiguous and abstract, and could be related to anything.

History always repeats itself, so I can safely predict there's going to be war, a new country will be formed and a new leader shall rise. I'm sure that'll happen within the next 1000 years, since it has already happened a lot for the last 1000. No big deal in predictions.

I was thinking about this in class today. With a potential nuclear conflict brewing with Iran, and this Avian Virus poised to make the jump to human-human transmission, it is worrying.

It begs the question, Are these the End times?

Um, no. Things are going to get so much worse. And the world's still not going to end because of it.

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Oh, I forgot to comment on that 12/21/12 thingy. It's the end of the Maya calendar, so some people believe it's the date of the apocalypse.

NOT!

The Maya had a vast array of gods that directly interferred with the mortal realm. Was there any interference to prevent their worshippers from being wiped out by the Spanish? No. Have they retaliated because humans damage the environment every day? No, they're false, and so are the mystic properties of the calendar.

On a more practical note, don't you think the calendar must conclude at some point? How would you design an endless calendar with Mayan technology?

I hope the world would end soon. Human history is becoming a DREADFUL bore... Wait, I AM a human! :eek: Long live planet Earth!

It totally depends on your definition of "world", do you mean the planet? or humanity? or just the current (religious, economic, and/or political) world order?

My personal believe the end of the worlds will happen in this order:
- the religious world will end (probably with some political 'help')
- the political world (taking much of the economic world with it)

And then something new will take over.

I seriously doubt if humanity or even this planet will ever 'end'. If only because we want to preserve our cradle.

Earth will certainly be destroyed in five billion years, when the Sun's lifespan comes to an end and causes it to go supernova. However, I think Mankind will be long gone by then. If we really survive that long, we'll have already expanded to the stars and/or have technology advanced enough to build humongous engines to the planet and push it out of the solar system. :D

The world will end in 5 billion years, when it is incinerated by the expanding sun.

Maybe your world will end. I'm saving money in the bank. I'm getting off this rock!

Anyway, don't worry about Iran. I've been working on an atomic bomb of my own. If they try anything...